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Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 21, 2012

Dole respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personally identifiable information and will solely collect, process and use your personally identifiable information in compliance with German data protection provisions. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains what information may be collected on dole.eu (the “Site”) and how such information is used and/or shared with others. Please review this Privacy Policy each time you visit our Site to ensure that you have read and agree with the current policy, as it may be amended without notice. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy on our Site.

YOUR INFORMATION AND HOW WE USE IT

We respect the privacy of all of our on-line guests. Our web server recognizes and records certain non-personal information about the computers of visitors. Currently, this information may include the type of browser used, the type of operating system and the domain name or IP address of the visitor's Internet service provider, the number of users that visit a specific page on our Site and the character and duration of such visits. This information may be used to help analyze site traffic and improve our services. We may also aggregate such information to create statistical data and we may share that information with potential advertisers, partners, affiliates and other third parties. At no point, however, do we access any personally identifiable facts in this process. Visitors cannot be identified from this information.

In the future, we may collect other types of non-personal information for the aforementioned purposes as new technology becomes available.

We do not require visitors to our Site to register or provide information in order to view our Site. However, in certain circumstances, you may be asked to provide us with some specific information about yourself in order to use or access certain features on our Site, such as contests, trivia games, rebate and coupon offers, surveys and other promotions; to receive information from us in the future, such as newsletters; or to fulfil a request or order for publications, merchandise or other information or materials (where you have requested or agreed to receive such information). Such information may include contact information (such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address), as well as other information we may require to carry out certain features of our Site.

We do not collect personally identifiable information from visitors to our Site unless it is provided to us voluntarily and knowingly. The personally identifiable information you submit will be used:
(I) to carry out your requests and respond to your inquiries, and (II) as otherwise disclosed at the respective point where such information is collected or in any additional terms and conditions applicable to the particular feature of our Site.

To accomplish this, we may share your personally identifiable information with third parties that perform functions on our behalf (or on behalf of our partners) or who have joined us in providing promotions and activities, such as companies (including retailers) or individuals that deliver packages, fulfil orders, participate in our promotions, administer our promotions, provide diet and nutrition information, provide marketing or promotional assistance, process credit card payments, analyze data or provide customer service. Such information will however be shared only to the extent these third parties need such information to perform their functions. Please note that certain of these products or services may not be made available to you if you decide not to share certain information with us.

We may also share your personally identifiable information with other companies, e.g. for marketing purposes, however not without prior explicit consent from you. If you want to revoke such a consent, you may express this revocation by contacting us at Kontakt@dole.com at any time.

In case of any given consents in terms of data protection we will erase your personally identifiable data immediately after you revoke your consent. In any other cases we will erase your personally identifiable information if it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected.

COOKIES

In addition to the non-personally identifiable information described above, we may also send you "Cookies." Cookies are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. Cookies make using a website more convenient by e.g. saving your passwords and preferences for you. A distinction is drawn between Session Cookies that are erased at the end of a session, and Permanent Cookies that are stored for the term on 12 months.

Cookies themselves do not contain any personally identifiable information. We may analyze the information derived from these cookies and match such information with other non-personally identifiable data. We may provide our analysis and certain non-personally identifiable information to potential partners, advertisers (who may use this information to provide advertisements tailored to your interests) or other third parties.

You have the option via the configuration of your browser of deciding whether or not to accept a cookie (your browser’s help screen should tell you how to do this). You may also delete a Cookie manually from your hard drive. Please note, however, that some parts of our Site may not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse to accept a cookie or choose to disable your cookies settings.

FURTHER DISCLOSURE

We reserve the right to disclose any personally identifiable or non-personally identifiable information if we are required to do so by law or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary in order to:

(I) conform with the requirements of the law or, for example, to comply with a Court order;
(II) protect or defend the legal rights or property of Dole, Dole Affiliates, our Site or its users; or (III) in an emergency to protect the health and safety of our Site' users or the general public.

CHILDREN UNDER 16

Some activities on our Site may be designed specifically for children.

Any activities developed for use by children visiting our site are designed to be fun and educational - and safe. Therefore we pay particular attention to the data protection of children.

Dole does not currently give or sell any personally identifiable information collected from children under the age of 16 on our Site to anyone, not even with the child’s consent. If we intend to share information with other parties, we will notify the child's parent or legal guardian and will state with whom we propose sharing information and why. The child's parent or legal guardian must consent to the disclosure of the child's personal information before it can be shared. Parents may consent to Dole's collection and use of their child's personal information without consenting to the disclosure of the information to third parties, including affiliated companies.

A parent or legal guardian can request that we remove, change or refuse further submission of information relating to a child under the age of 16 by sending an e-mail to Kontakt@dole.com or by contacting us at the address listed below. Any such request must contain the child's name, address and e-mail address so we can locate such child's information.

KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SECURE

We have reasonable and appropriate electronic and physical security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information.

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

As part of the services offered to you through the Site, the information you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA"). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EEA or one of our service providers or partners is located in a country outside of the EEA. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the EEA. If we transfer your information outside of the EEA in this way, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses Cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In advance your IP-address is being shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or another Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases your IP-address will be transferred in full to a server of Google in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the website operator Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage for the website operator. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can avoid the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. In addition you can avoid the collection of the data created by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP-address) as well as the processing by Google by downloading and installing the browser-plugin provided under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Alternative to the browser add-on, or within browsers on mobile devices, you can click this link, to prevent detection by Google Analytics on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie is stored on your device. Clear your cookies, you will need to click this link once again.

DATA PROTECTION IN CONNECTION WITH FACEBOOK PLUG-INS

We have integrated plug-ins from the social network Facebook from Facebook Inc. (USA) on dole.de. The plug-ins can be recognised by the Facebook logo or the "like" button (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/).
During your visit to our site, your browser creates a direct connection with the servers of Facebook; Facebook then communicates with you much like in the event of a direct call-up of Facebook. Through this procedure, it is communicated to Facebook that you are visiting our website with your IP address, and Facebook may under certain circumstances be able to place cookies with you. If you are logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook can assign this visit to your Facebook account. At the same time, clicking on the "Like" button links the contents of our web presence to your Facebook profile. In the Facebook privacy policy (https://en-gb.facebook.com/policy.php) you will find the purpose and the scope of data collection and processing by Facebook, Inc. In addition, you will find further references to data processing by Facebook and settings to protect your privacy.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions or comments about our privacy practices, or if you wish to access, review, amend or delete any personally identifiable information held by us about you or if you wish to modify the permission you have given us regarding use of your personally identifiable information, you can contact us at:

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Terms of Use

Last updated: May 21, 2012

This website (dole.eu) is controlled or maintained by Dole Europe GmbH, Stadtdeich 7, 20097 Hamburg, Germany, Tel.:00 49 40 329 06 – 0, VAT Nr. DE 281 169 253, ILN 40 14071 000001, represented by Victor Esquivel („Dole“; „we“, „us“ or „our“). These terms of Use include general terms of use of the Site. By using any of our Site, participants ("Participant", "you") agree to be bound by these terms of Use together with any amendments made from time to time ("Terms of Use "). Please review these Terms of Use from time to time as they may be amended without notice. The date of our Terms of Use is set forth at the top of the document. Any changes to these Terms of Use will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Terms of Use on our Site. Please note that your use of certain features of our Site may be subject to additional and separately communicated terms and conditions. By using these features, you also agree to be bound by such additional terms and conditions.You may use this Site for personal and lawful use in accordance with these Terms of Use and not for any commercial purpose including selling any goods or services.

CONTENT

We make no warranty regarding the currentness, correctness, completeness or quality of the provided information.

All offers are without obligation and non-binding. We explicitly reserve the right to change, alter or erase parts of the Site or the whole offer or temporarily or permanently discontinue its publication.

LINKED SITES

At the time of establishing all links, no illegal content was identifiable by us on the linked sites. We have no influence neither on the current and future design nor on the contents or authorship of any linked website. We explicitly dissociate ourselves from any content on linked external web sites, that was changed after the link was established. This dissociation applies to all established links and reference on our Site as well as for external contributions in guestbooks, discussion forums and mailing lists established by us.

INTELLECTUAL PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

We (or our parent, subsidiary and/or affiliated companies) own or control the rights in the contents of our Site. This includes names, brands, logos, trade marks, images, text, columns, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, audio clips, video clips, software, further intellectual content and other elements making up the Site (collectively, "Content"), which are protected by copyrights and other intellectual property rights owned and controlled by us, by our parent, subsidiary and/or affiliated companies, or through a third party license to us. Except as specifically provided herein or elsewhere on the Site, no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, or otherwise used for any purpose, by any person or entity, without the prior express written permission of Dole. You may not add, delete, distort, or otherwise modify the Content without our permission. Any unauthorized attempt to modify any Content, to defeat or circumvent our security features, or to utilize our Site for any purpose other than their intended purposes is strictly prohibited, including creating links from our Site, without our prior written consent.

RULES OF CONDUCT

We want our Site to be safe, enjoyable places for all our users. Accordingly you will not post to or transmit through our Site any material that would violate or infringe in any way upon the rights of others.You shall not post or transmit:

(a) any threatening, harmful, menacing, racist, offensive, sexual, defamatory, obscene, pornographic material;
(b) any material infringing any intellectual property;
(c) anything to harass, stalk or threaten others;
(d) any material, or do anything which violates local law or regulation, or would give rise to civil or criminal liability;
and you shall not:
(e) hack into the Site or any other related computer system, to make excessive traffic demands, deliver viruses or forward chain letters or similar material that may reasonably be expected to inhibit other users from using and enjoying the Site;
(f) upload or otherwise make available any material protected by a a third party right, including but not limited to copyright and/or trade mark without express written permission of the owner of such right; or(g) do anything which may damage or destroy the reputation of Dole or any third party.

We reserve our right to initiate court proceedings in case You infringe these Rules of Conduct or any other part of these Terms of Use.

SUBMISSIONS

We can use any content or ideas you give us on the Site, as we see fit. In particular, any notes, postings, ideas, suggestions, concepts, or other material submitted through our Site via e-mail or any means that we may create or provide in the future will become the property of Dole throughout the world and we shall be entitled (without compensation to any party) to use such material, either commercially or non-commercially, in perpetuity in any form and manner in any media, particularly on this Site. You grant us a comprehensive, non-exclusive timely unlimited, worldwide, non-restricted and transferable use right on such content, and you will not have any claim against us with respect to such use.You agree that, in the event you make a submission to us:

(i) it is original to you and accurate;
(ii) it does not violate, and its use will not violate, the rights of any third party or any applicable law or ordinance, and(iii) you will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that any such submission is free from viruses, worms, trojan horses, or other items of a destructive nature.

PRIVACY

Any information we may collect regarding users of our Site is subject to our Privacy Policy which form part of these Terms of Use, the full text of which is available by clicking here.The use of our contact data like postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, as well as email-addresses published within the imprint or comparable statements by third parties for the purpose of remittance of advertisement is prohibited. We explicitly reserve the right to take legal action against any party sending so-called spam mail in the event of violation of this prohibition.

LIABILITY

We are only liable for damages caused willfully or by gross negligence by us, our representatives and persons employed by us.

Liability for slight negligence is excluded. This exclusions does not apply to breaches of a contractual core duty by us, our representatives or persons employed by us. Contractual core duties are such duties whose accomplishment enables proper fulfilment of an agreement in the first place and whose fulfilment a contractual party regularly may rely on.

Unaffected by the aforementioned limitations of our liability in any case is a statutory liability irrespective of culpability, in particular resulting from a legal guarantee or pursuant to the German Product Liability Act. The same applies for any culpable damages with respect to injury to health, body or life caused by us, our representatives and persons employed by us.

MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with German law. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of Germany.
All of these Terms of Use shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in effect.
We reserve the right to terminate your access to and ability to use our Site (or any portion thereof), at any time (with or without notice).The non-enforcement by either party of any right hereunder shall not constitute a waiver of this or any other right.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions, comments or complaints about these Terms of Use or our privacy practices, or if you wish to review or amend any personally identifiable information you have provided, you can contact us at:

Dole Europe GmbH, Stadtdeich 7, 20097 Hamburg, Germany

Phone: + 49 40 329 06 0

Fax: + 49 40 329 06 269

E-Mail: Kontakt@dole.com

VAT Nr. DE 281 169 253, ILN 40 14071 000001

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